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Professor Rose Luckin

'Artificial Intelligence and its Implications for Education'

Artificial Intelligence is currently the subject of a great deal of attention both within and outside academia. It is predicted that AI and automation will change the workplace dramatically in many countries over the next two decades and this brings with it significant implications for education. The current workforce will need re-training and the young people currently in schools, colleges and universities will need to be equipped to deal with what the fast-moving modern workplace demands. However, there is little agreement about exactly how the workplace will change and what skills, knowledge and understanding will be the ones that students and employees will require. This situation makes planning what and how to teach a challenge.

In this talk I will summarise the current AI dilemma for educators and suggest areas where we should focus our attention if we are to prepare young people to be effective in their future workplace. I will discuss the ways that the education system can respond to these new demands, and in particular how AI itself can be used to support teaching and learning, and in particular assessment.

Rose Luckin is Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab in London. Rose’s research involves the design and evaluation of educational technology using theories from the learning sciences and techniques from artificial intelligence. She has a particular interest in how AI can be used to enable more effective, continuous, formative assessment processes and tools. Rose works closely with the education technology industry, in particular Start-ups and SMEs, to enable them to integrate research evidence and methods into their products. Rose has advised research councils in various countries and has written widely about educational technologies. She is lead author of Nesta’s influential ‘Decoding Learning’ report published in 2012 and Pearson’s Unleashing Intelligence, published in 2016. She has taught in schools, FE and HE, and she is a UfI charity Trustee, and a Governor and Trustee at St Paul’s school in London and the Self-Managed Learning College in Brighton.